Reverse Wellness Rounding: Looking After The Mental Health Needs Of Medical Professionals During The Coronavirus Pandemic
NewsColony Reverse Wellness Rounding: Looking After The Mental Health Needs Of Medical Professionals During The Coronavirus Pandemic CHICAGO (CBS) — Day in and day out, health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are often putting themselves and their families at risk – while they put their own needs and emotions aside. Now, Rush University Medical Center is using a team of psychiatrists and social workers to check in on those working so hard to save lives. Dr. Bryant Adibe, chief wellness officer at Rush, joined CBS 2’s Brad Edwards and Irika Sargent on Monday to talk about reverse wellness rounding and what it entails. “Wellness rounds is a really simple concept. You know, in a traditional clinical environment, we would round some of our patients,” Adibe said. “What we did was we brought together an interdisciplinary team to round our frontline staff because we recognize that during these special circumstances, it’s so important to insure that we’re chec...